<p>I’ll throw my youngest son’s college out here as a New England hippiesih/ very geeky leaning LAC with no sports and no frats. Champlain College. </p>
<p>I am another one that really dislikes East Coast Colleges being painted with the same brush. We have THOUSANDS of colleges over here. The only thing they have in common is geography. I’ve been an active poster on this parents board for ten years (!) and there have been very, very few references of Southern schools as anything other then in the South, less expensive, more apt to be religious and having slightly more kids in Greek life. I’ve never even heard mid-western colleges referred to anything except a good value, “unknown” (only by new posters), and out in the middle of nowhere. While the latter isn’t always a positive, it’s not anywhere near cow-tipping or bible thumping.</p>
<p>And this is why I stick to the parents boards. We’re supposedly smart enough to realize that each college is unique, no matter where it’s located.</p>